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Linux goes to Hollywood

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-read dept.

j2brown writes: " Yahoo! News has this little article about IBM taking Linux to Hollywood. " It's not a very in-depth article, but it is interesting that Big Blue is saying that Hollywood will be moving their rendering stuffs to Linux in the next 12 to 18 months. Wonder how SGI feels about that.

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  1. Re:And this is good? by karmawarrior · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    No, it's not the same Hollywood. The one's against DVDs under linux are the MPAA. The one's who are going to/might use linux are the backend movie production people,
    And the MPAA works for whom? And the backend movie production people work for whom? And since when did "merely being an employee" of some group make you not part of that group?

    Of course it's the same f---ing Hollywood! You're not the only person engaging in this sophestry but that doesn't make it any less bizarre.

    On the contrary, I'd love to see Linux help the movie industry out. Because if they do, then the movie industry might actually see how great linux is and be much more kind to us (the linux community) in general. The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make friends with him, not through force and violence.
    Nobody's suggesting force and violence. That doesn't mean we should help them out. This is providing something for nothing in return - indeed, it's going to the very extreme, taking the schoolyard bully who's just given you a bloody nose and offering to clean his shoes for him.
    Also please try to keep in mind that Hollywood and the movie industry contains two types of people, lawyers, and not lawyers. So please just be mad at the MPAA, not whole damn industry.
    The MPAA is an organisation that represents movie publishers, which in turn represents the interests of producers and other people involved in the movie making chain. It is, like it or not, the legitimate voice of Hollywood. There are many individuals in Hollywood, some of whom may agree with us, some of whom wont, but as an entity, it's a slimy outfit that speaks with one voice: Let those who'd wish to do things other than the way we demand be subject to the most extreme abuses. Thanks to the laws the MPAA has been instrumental in proposing, we've seen people extradited, others imprisoned, others still pending imprisonment, and others silenced through threats of imprisonment. And for what purpose? To prevent someone from copying a movie, regardless of intent, whether it's to distribute across the world, or to copy from a DVD to a computer screen on an operating system nobody has a licence for.

    This is a pretty extremist and evil group. And you want us to go to bed with them. What a sick and twisted world.

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  2. when you get off your fat ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and write one yourself

    and this silly "guess how to get a post through the lameness filter" game sucks.

  3. Re:Great! by FaRuvius · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    You will never see powerful 3D apps that are open source. There is too much money in the development, plus the licensing of codecs would make the most useful parts inaccessible.

    If you want one, write it yourself. Oh you can't?
    Well theres your answer.

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  4. Still misses the main point. by addison · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now, the entire reason why I'm responding is because I have friends who work for a effects company (They did stuff for AI, Shrek, Antz, etc). Now, they are a good company. Fun atmosphere, and guess what? A lot of the employees IRC on OpenProjects.Net.
    Now.. yes, they may get money from a source that is in opposition to the open source movement but guess what? If you work for a company so do you.

    I don't.

    But that's another issue.

    They aren't in an employer/employee relationship. They are in a contract. Worlds different.

    No. They are producing work for us to buy, but we're not allowed to view it when and where and on what we want.

    That was his main point, you completely missed it.

    When they are using Linux for the same reason that we are on our desktop(s) - [insert list of reasons here], but then denying us the ability to view our purchased product on said desktop........

    And yes, if they're working for those studios, they are part of that process.

    That's at best hypocritical.

    Addison